technology – Page 5 – A Piece, of the Sky

– Swaggy C is cool. He has a great confidence. What do you think of the showmance though? They seem like they actually like each other – but will it help their game?

So far though, the day trader has things under control. Tyler tried to resist, by not putting up Angela. However, I was so glad when Swaggy C decided to keep the people he came into the house with. That’s exactly what Angela said she would do to him! If she was smart, they would have made a deal to run the whole game, regardless of who won.

– Do you get a bad vibe from Kaitlyn? One moment, she’s all “Namaste” and the next, she’s tearing into Swaggy C in the storage room. I inherently don’t trust such duality, that can turn on a dime, like that. But she is in Swaggy C’s alliance. We’ll see.

– The robot is a cool experiment, but Sam was not handling it well. Thankfully, the buzz generated on the outside got her a new life. Her experience answers a lot of questions about why we have flesh bodies, as opposed to plastic ones, but that’s more for philosophy!

What do you think? What do you think about the undercover NYPD cop/professor Steve?

Wheel of Fortune was ending. Ran and Alli sat on the couch and listened to the rain drops striking the windowpane.

Ran rubbed Alli’s upper arm, “Was there anything in that lab that could have hurt you?”

Alli sunk into the crook of Ran’s arm and kept her eyes on the television set, “There are other types of avatars: Dark Avatars that are like shades; they live in their own grayscale world.”

“There are also Anti-Avatars, that are sentient, and take on human forms, like avatars, but their true forms are not beautiful and iridescent, but bestial and ugly. Monstrous.”

Ran’s face grew pale and she looked down at Alli, “Did you ever see one of those things?”

Alli nodded; her hair was soft, cut in a medium fade, “A few times. One appeared and got through…the night Aro was hurt…Then the lab was closed down.”

Ran held Alli close, in the darkening room, to protect Alli from something Ran herself knew little about. Water cascaded down the glass.

Alli let off an involuntary shudder and closed her eyes. Ran reached through the gloom and encroaching feelings of dampness, to turn on the lamp.

“You can find great strength, within your vulnerabilities,” Alli remembered Aro saying, yesterday evening on the beach, in Atev. Aro still wore her hair cut in a high fade, even though she now wore tailored suits, smoked cigars and had many gold rings on her fingers – instead of a jean jacket with holes in it.

“You deserve all of it, after what you’ve been through,” Alli had said, setting down her knife and fork, after their meal.

Aro smiled, “You deserve it too. Become the Sky Avatar. You deserve to be happy.”